Teach Yourself Modern Persian (Farsi)

Teach Yourself Modern Persian (Farsi) - Book and 2 Audio CDs

Brand New 2 CD's and Book

discover how to speak, recognize and write contemporary persian
progress swiftly beyond the basics
explore the code in depth

Persian is created in the Arabic script but it belongs to the Indo-European
family of languages so speakers of European languages must discover understanding
Persian comparatively convenient to start with. It is remarkably easy in terms of
formal grammar - no gender, no noun inflection and no irregularities in verbal
conjugation.

Teach Yourself Persian is made for the true novice and self-access
learner, beginning within the fundamentals of understanding the Persian alphabet. By the finish
of the course you can build complex sentences and communicate in a
variety of everyday scenarios. There's a lot of practice of every point as
it's introduced and the accompanying CDs might enable you to enhance your
talking and hearing abilities.

About the Author

Narguess Farzad, the writer, is a lecturer in Persian at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, London

About the Farsi (Persian) Language

Persian (Farsi) is an Indo-European code spoken in Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It is derived within the code of the historic Persian persons.Persian belongs to the Western group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European code family, and is of the Subject Object Verb kind. Contrary to widespread belief, it is actually not a Semitic code. The Western Indo-Iranian group contains additional associated languages including Kurdish and Balochi. The code is in the Southwestern Indo-Iranian group, together with the Tat and Luri languages.

Persian as well as its types have official-language status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. According to CIA World Factbook, there are around 64 million native speakers of Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and about the same amount of individuals in different components of the globe speak Persian. UNESCO was asked to choose Persian as 1 of its languages in 2006.

Persian has been a medium for literary and scientific contributions to the Islamic planet and the Western. It has had an influence on certain neighbouring languages, very the Turkic languages of Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia. It has had a lower influence on Arabic and different languages of Mesopotamia.

For five decades before the British colonization, Persian was popular as a 2nd code in the Indian subcontinent; it took prominence as the code of culture and knowledge in many Muslim courts in India and became the "official language" under the Mughal emperors. Only in 1843 did the subcontinent start performing company in English. Evidence of Persian's historic influence in the area is watched in the extent of its influence found on the languages of Hindustani (causing Urdu), Kashmiri, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Bengali and even Telugu, plus the popularity that Persian literature nonetheless enjoys in the area.

Persian, the more popular name of the code in English, is an Anglicized shape derived from Latin *Persianus < Latin Persia < Greek Πέρσις Pérsis, a Hellenized shape of Old Persian Parsa. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression Persian appears to have been initially chosen in English in the mid-16th century. Native Persian speakers call it "Fārsi" (regional name) or Parsi. Farsi is the arabicized shape of Parsi, due to a deficiency of the /p/ phoneme in Standard Arabic.

According to Pejman Akbarzadeh, "... In English, though, this code has usually been recognised as "Persian" ('Persane' in French and 'Persisch' in German). But various Persians migrating to the West (very to the USA) after the 1979 revolution continued to employ 'Farsi' to identify their code in English and the term became commonplace in English-speaking nations." "Farsi" is experienced frequently in the linguistic literature as a name for the code, utilized both by Iranian and by foreign authors, and is preferred by some.However, The Academy of Persian Language and Literature has announced in an official pronouncement that the name "Persian" is a bit more appropriate, as it has the longer custom in the western languages and greater expresses the part of the code as a mark of cultural and nationwide continuity.

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